
This dataverse contains two kinds of data files:

1) Replication files to replicate the analysis in:
Howe, Philip J., Steinecke, David & Zuber, Christina Isabel. Competing Principals in a Multinational State: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907-1914, Legislative Studies Quarterly. DOI: 10.1111/lsq.70029


2) Extensive original data on the representatives elected to the Imperial Austrian Abgeordnetenhaus in 1907 and 1914 that go beyond those used in the analysis of the article.  


1) Readme on replication: 

This repository contains the replication materials for the article mentioned above. The analysis was conducted in R.

Please follow these three steps to replicate the results:

1. 	Open the R project "Replication files.Rproj" to replicate the study results.
	
2.	Either use the pre-merged datasets and directly jump to step 3, or use the file "data_prep.Rmd" to merge the raw data stored in the "data" folder.

3.	Run all code chunks of the file "analysis.Rmd", which entails the R code to run the analysis and replicate all figures and tables.
	(Optional: The regression results to produce all figures and tables can also be loaded from the "models" folder into R by uncommenting the load command in the respective code chunk before executing it.)
	The regression output will be stored in the "models" folder, and the figures and tables in the "figures" and "tables" folders, respectively.



2) Readme on the Habsburg representatives data (reps_1907.xlsx and reps_1911.xlsx)

The files reps_1907 and reps_1911 contain detailed information on the representatives elected in 1907 and 1911 to the Imperial Austrian Abgeordnetenhaus, the lower house of the Reichsrat. 
The second tab in each of the files contains descriptions of the variables. 

Personal data on the representatives (religion, father's name, occupation, etc.) was entered based on Franz Adlgasser's collection of representatives' biographies, now extended and available from: https://www.parlament.gv.at/aktuelles/pk/jahr_2019/pk0880

The organisational variables relating to representatives party groups (clubs), committees, sections and parliamentary professional associations were entered based on "No author. 1907-1917. Klubs des Abgeordnetenhauses, Vols. XVIII-XXII. Vienna: k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei."

When using any of this data, please also cite: 
Howe, Philip J., Steinecke, David & Zuber, Christina Isabel. Competing Principals in a Multinational State: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907-1914, Legislative Studies Quarterly. DOI: 10.1111/lsq.70029



Feel free to contact David Steinecke for questions on the replication (1), and Philip J. Howe or Christina Zuber for questions on the representatives data (2). 
